Nigel Lythgoe quotes

“If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.”
-- Nigel Lythgoe

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“The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.”
-- Nigel Lythgoe

Source : "Viewers 'Idol'-ize This Saucy Search for a Superstar". USA Today, June 18, 2002.

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“I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.”
-- Nigel Lythgoe

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“There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.”
-- Nigel Lythgoe

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“And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.”
-- Nigel Lythgoe

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“Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.”
-- Nigel Lythgoe

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“That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.”
-- Nigel Lythgoe

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“Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.”
-- Nigel Lythgoe

Source : "Nigel Lythgoe officially returning to ‘American Idol’" by Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. August 05, 2010.

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“In my day everything wasn't so PC.”
-- Nigel Lythgoe

Source : "Nigel Lythgoe: A Man, A Plan, A Wildly Successful TV Show". Interview with Victoria Looseleaf, www.dancemagazine.com. August 1, 2007.

“An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com

“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.”

“If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”

“Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!”

“Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.”